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Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch)

TechCrunch

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. Founders: Sameer Kapur (CPO), Vishnu Chakroborty (CTO), Gautam Ajjarapu (CEO). With high-frequency microlearning and personal health coaching, Health U keeps patients engaged with their health on a daily basis. Founders: Matt Alston (CEO), Melissa Zhang (CTO).

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

James Shore

Highlights of his career include heading up engineering at New Relic as it grew from 3 developers to 330; growing Invision from 60 developers to 350 as its CTO; working on VisualAge Smalltalk at OTI (Object Technology International); and coordinating the open-source Eclipse developers at the Eclipse Organization. “See that woman there?”

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson: Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

James Shore

Highlights of his career include heading up engineering at New Relic as it grew from 3 developers to 330; growing Invision from 60 developers to 350 as its CTO; working on VisualAge Smalltalk at OTI (Object Technology International); and coordinating the open-source Eclipse developers at the Eclipse Organization. “See that woman there?”

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO

Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One. This was not in the budget for the year nor was it on our roadmap, yet we were able to initiate cost-benefit analysis, do demos, and get it deployed as a two-month project,” he says. “In

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Deploy a Clojure web application to AWS using Terraform

CircleCI

You can edit the password if required, but for this demo it’s not really necessary. not really necessary, but nice for demos. Chris Howe-Jones is a consultant CTO, Software Architect, Lean/Agile Coach, Developer, and Technical Navigator for DevCycle. . # no need to change these unless you want to. max_instance_size = 3.

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Lessons Learned on the Path to Managing with Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode, we’re talking to Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall (CTO of Songkick) about the path from programmer to manager. Progressed, eventually, to leading test teams, and managing testers, and then moving more into agile roles and team coaching. Learn more and sign up for a demo at gitprime.com. Episode 15. Show Notes.

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How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

You’re responsible for providing performance feedback, for providing coaching. Learn more and sign up for a demo at GitPrime.com. Then we have a CTO and a VP role, where I’m a people-management track person and then we have a CTO who is an architecture-code, technical-decisions leader.